Discuss John 2 Page 31

Considering the fact that Mary the mother of Jesus, Jesus’ brethren and disciples were at this wedding, the wedding looks like the wedding of a close relative of the family to which Jesus was born into. The fact that Jesus and his disciples honoured this invitation is a lesson to believers and ministers of the gospel. Therefore as ministers of the gospel we must create time out of our busy schedule to honour invitation to ceremonies such as marriage, naming ceremonies etc. The bible says there was set there six water pots and those were the six water pots that Jesus was going to make use of. As a believer wherever you are, be sensitive because what will bring about a great breakthrough in our lives is usually where we are without us knowing at times. For examples Isaac had lived for long in Gerar, before he knew he was to sow in the land. It was after he sowed in the land where he had been for a long time that he became a prosperous man; Genesis 26.
Another lesson from the reaction of Mary when they needed wine reveals a lot :
1. It reveals that she is a good family woman who does not want the ceremony of her neighbour to encounter failure of any sort;
2. It shows her faith in Jesus, for she came to him to tell him the need in the feast. As believers we should also know how to take our request to God in prayer. After the feast, Jesus and his mother, brethren and his disciples left the feast together to Capernaum. This reveals that even though Jesus is the Saviour and anointed one from heaven, yet he did not abandon his family and as such they attended ceremonies together and even travelled together. Today, some may abandon their family members because they are born again. As believers, we should not abandon our unbelieving family members, but we are to relate with Christ like love and wisdom.

@Helen,
In Colossians 1:14, the word used of Apostle Paul is WE, and not the word ALL. If the word used is ALL, I salute you, but the word used is WE. So, I conclude that the words “WE were” refer only to the Jews or Israel nation. Gentile people were not included in this verse through His blood for the forgiveness of sins. Also Paul citizenship is a Jew. While Paul speaking in this verse, there are Jews and Gentiles around him. In 1 John 2:2 the verse did not say that there is shedding of blood. So be watchful, this verse did not say that through the blood of Jesus Christ the sins of the whole world be forgiven.

1 John 2:1 that you may not sin: God's plan for every believer. The cure for backsliding is to hurry to our Advocate Jesus Christ. Because He is righteous, He will plead our case and obtain our forgiveness. 1 John 2:12-14, The commandment to love fits all ages and all stages of the Christian life. Children in Christ can love because their sins are forgiven. Fathers have longer memories of past grace. Young men rejoice in power to overcome evil.

@Mar,
Saying the blood of Jesus was shed for Israel only. I am glad you are reading the King James Bible. God did want the gentiles to worship him. In 1 John 2:2 ''And he is the propitiation (payment) for our sins, and not ours only but also for the sins of the WHOLE world.'' Colossians 1:14 says ''In whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins.'' I know Jesus died for me and my sins and I hope he will not be ashamed of me, and I will be able to call him brother. I’m going to meet him in the air!

I John 2:8: Again a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in Him and in you: because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth. 2 Corinthians 5:17: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things like anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication, envy, hatred, etc; are passed away; behold all things are become new. The light of God in us empowers us to have our loins girt about with truth, and having our breastplate of righteousness, Our feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, taking the shield of faith, wherewith we shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And taking the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Ephesians 6:10.

God's word is infallible. We should ask ourselves; when did women begin to wear pants? Does the word 'unisex' ring any bell? What about 'gender equality'? All these came began to surface at the advent of the Feminist Movement of the Twentieth Century which was borne out of supposedly marginalization of the womenfolk. I do not want to go into details. You can do some research on this. My major concern is that the Devil is always opposed to God's word with his infamous "...hath God said..."( Genesis 3:1) but the Church is ignorant of his devices! Women began to wear pants to show that "what a man can do, a woman can do even better"! This is against Scriptures which say women are weaker vessels ( 1 Peter 3:17). This is the way of the world and we are NOT to love it (1 John 2:15). A man reacts to what he sees, a woman to what she hears. Today, women have gone out of their way not to wear pants alone, but even to wear 'sexy' pants that only reveal parts of their bodies. This is evil in God's sight and the whole of Christendom should rise up against this device of the Enemy to manipulate the Church. What the Spirit says, he who has ears let him hear! God bless you all.

According to Jewish law a person could not begin a ministry (preach openly to others) until they were 30 years old. Jesus adhered to this law and started his ministry at that age. He probably preformed this miracle sometime before he turned thirty.

1 John 2:1 Tells us that if any man sins, we have an Advocate with the Father. Jesus is our propitiation for our sins, and not only ours, but the whole world’s. In order to have the Advocate on your team, you must accept Him in your heart as your Savior. That is why the scripture tells us God is not willing that any would perish, but that all would come unto repentance. The proof that one is born again, is that he/she will not practice sin. The Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. So a child of God cannot practice sin. Whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and this is what keeps the child of God on the straight and narrow way.

@Peter,
Verse 10 proves it was real wine.
God bless you.

Did Jesus turn the water into a Merlot, or did he have a house wine?

My body is the temple of the holy spirit.

To Israel, may God have mercy on you and reveal the truths of THE WORD. it happened and they are real, chapter 4 talks about same event!

1 John 5:20 We know that the Son of God is come and has given us an understanding that we might know him that is true ....the true God...1 John 2:3: And hereby we know that we know him if we keep his commandments. 1 John 3:23: And this is his commandment that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ. 1 John 4:15: Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him and he in God. 1 John 2:4: He that saith I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a Liar. 1 John 2:22: Who is a Liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ..THE SON OF GOD...then it says the truth is not in him Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life no man comes onto the father but by me ....This is the hope of glory Christ in you....If Christ be not in you you are none of his... 1 John 1:5: But whosoever keepeth his word in him ..Jesus is his Word ...verily is the love of God perfected. 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments......And hereby know we that we are in him. 1 John3:24: And he that keepeth his commandments God dwelleth in him and he in God. 1 John5:20: We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us and understanding that we might know him that is true ......his commandments ...and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and Eternal life.

verse 3 There fellowship is with the father and his son Jesus Christ they were taught about this fellowship by Jesus they now wish to tell us what they heard verse 5 This then is the message we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light and in him is no darkness at all verse 7 If we walk in the light... God is the light as he is in the light... meaning If we walk in God as He is in God we have fellowship one with another not one another one with another the father and his Son Jesus Christ. How do you walk in God 1John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God... God is light if God who is light dwells in you and you dwell in him its impossible for you to walk in darkness 1John3:23-24 And this is his commandment that you believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another as he gave Commandment.And he that keepeth his commandment God dwelleth in him and he in God verse 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him an walk in darkness...meaning were not keeping his commandments ....Because if we are God who is light dwells in us if were not in the light were not keeping his commandments.....again If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie 1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ....The SON OF GOD ....He is antichrist who denieth the father and the son

@Jawahar,
In that section of John 2, Jesus is requested to do a miracle in providing for missing wine. Therefore the hour that was not yet come should refer to miracles that were needed, as Jesus had not yet started his ministry.

When Jesus said my hour is not yet come ( John 2:4) he meant the hour that Jesus had to die in this world.

John 2:1 This scripture (and the third day there was a marriage) follows after the previous scripture, about angels descending and rising from haven and the end of the scripture end's with Mary Jesus mother was already there. It's showing the start and the end of the church age. (for a day is as thousand year's with the Lord). The servant's are the angel's obeying the word of GOD, the six water pots filled with water are the symbol of man being purified or washed by the Word of GOD. Then being filled by the new wine the Holy Spirit in the new covenant.

Key: 21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
The whole book and its teachings is a parable about your mind I'm convinced that none of the characters ever existed

Great stuff
I would like to hear more of this truth
Jake

I'm Brazilian and I am learning speak English trough
of the Bible, is interesting as The Bible in English is more detailed.

The house of God is a place we worship and hon the Alimght God.soo our body is the temple of God we should keep it holy also Amem

In Mathew 1:1 Jesus Christ is son of David, son of Abraham. He was made seed of David according to the flesh ( Romans 1:4). He, as seed of Abraham was promised to possess the gates of his enemies. In Abraham's seed all the nations of the earth be blessed ( Genesis 22:17-18). In Mathew 1:18) He is Child of the Holy Ghost. He came down from heaven ( John 3: 13). This Child of the Holy Ghost was the word made flesh, the only begotten of the Father ( John 1:14). The Holy Ghost is the Father. The Holy Ghost and the Father are the self same person. God is a Spirit ( John 4:24) and you must be born of water the Spirit to see the kingdom of God ( John 3:5). God is the Father and He is the Holy Ghost. God was manifest in the flesh ( 1Timothy 3:16) For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham ( Hebrews 1:16). God was manifested in the flesh make atonement for sin and to purchase His church by His own blood ( Acts 20: 28). The Shekinah glory that was in that once filled the temple in Jerusalem took a body of flesh. He became God's Choosen Place of Worship, God's Temple that He choose to put His name, the perfect realisation ofthe old testament temple (Deutromy12:5-11). Jesus was God's temple and the Church is the temple of his body ( John 2:19; Ephesians 5:30; 2:21- 22). The church of Christ, the bride is the mouthpiece of the Holy Ghost for the commission was its not ye that speak but the Holy Ghost ( Mark 13:11) and again what Holy Ghost speaks the true church speaks the same ( Revelation 22:17), for He that is Joined unto the Lord is one Spirit ( 1Corinthians 6:16). Now the Spirit of the Lord that was on Jesus is in His church even as He promised: as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD, My spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out the mouth of thy Seed's seed, from henceforth and forever( Isaiah 59:21). The witness of the Apostles and prophets in the Bible is the witness of the Holy Ghost, for they were sent by the Holy Ghost ( Acts 13:4) and they preached by the Holy Ghost ( Galatians 1 :11-12). For the church to receive the blessing of Abraham the must stay exacty with the original gospel as Spoken by the Holy Ghost through His apotles

The Lord was not disrespectful but He was definitely rebuking her knowing her name will be infamously exalted as the Queen of Heaven, co-redeemer and Intercessor. Today she is not the mother of Christ but the daughter of Christ. Unless she had repented and was born of God she would not have gone to Heaven when she died.

thank you jesus

it's been suggested that when the animals were sold a small leash was used to lead them to the slaughter then this insignificant leash was discarded as litter on the ground. Perhaps Jesus pick these up and made the scourge. If this is the case, a wonderful lesson in this verse is how Jesus can take our discarded trash - stuff that we consider unworthy of the sacrifice and knit it together too purge unrighteousness from our body the temple of almighty god

thers nothing that is impossible with the word of god, the word of god is god himself so the word of god on ur lips of faith is god talking

I would kindly like to emphasise the reason why jesus destroyed the temple , the temple of god is not the place to merhandise . in fact there are many activities perfomed in the house of God like worship,preaching etc but in the book of matthew Jesus prefered to call his house a house of prayer and i beleive that we are called into prayer

Verbatim response to Mike's comment on 9/12/2011, 10:13am... ("how can a criminal steal and GOD almighty will sacrifice is only son for the criminal.)

Although the criminal knows death is the punishment, he doesnot want to die. God the just merciful, loving and just judge knows, and out of his love for the criminal, he sacrifices his son, to save the criminal's life provided the criminal belives in God' son, hence John 3:17. GOD'S LOVE IS NO WHERE ALLUDED TO THAN IN John 3:16 .

Once the criminal finds the deal too good to resist, HE HAS NO TIME TO UNDERSTAND, BUT TAKES THE DEAL STARIGHT AWAY, BEFORE THE CRAZE JUDGE CHANGES HIS MIND, AND GETS ANOTHER CHANCE TO LIVE. Mike if you were the criminal would you drop such a deal questioning God's ways and wisdom? By the way have you embraced God's love through Christ?


HOW DOES IT WORK?

The criminal simply believes in the son of God as the propitiation for his crime- 1 John 2:2, confess the crime (or loads the crime on Christ to pay the penality), repents (deliberate decision not to commit the crime again) and gets baptised (symbol of renewal unto salvation Mark 16:16) and receives the Spirit of God ( Acts 2:38) to enable him to steal no more, and live an abundant life. The criminal is obliged to find the book ( bible) about the God of love and his son the epitome of the same, and reads it daily to develop the relationship with that God through his son.

The criminal finds a congregation (Church) of forgiven criminals ( saved, born again or believers) and fellowships, as he reaches out to others to embrace the pardon and live again.

Mike it is not easy to understand (as the song goes, " it wasnot easy, but was worthwhile) once you are not the criminal whose life lies at the noose of the hungman's mercy after the "verdit by the gavel" went, "guilty condemend to crucify!!!!!!!", otherwise, to a criminal the deal is too good to querry God's wisdom.

Another part of the question another time once by the grace of God. We love you Mike and pray for you. (SELW)

In initial time , No body khonwn who Jesus is , he through the wedding banquet shewed his glory , epople first knew he was phophet .

The power of jesus is still raining on his children and i no He start with somebody (wedding) and i no it will not end there, Jesus said unto them fill the empty 'pot with water' it mein that we must first prepare to fill our heart with hope and sourly our wish shall come to pass, Amen.